Chapter Eighty-Three: Take the Mansion City

Huang Dagen saw that the cavalry of the people with colored eyes made a detour, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He was afraid for a while at the moment, and he had no intention of chasing, so he immediately ordered someone to clean up the battlefield. The muskets and grenades that had been thrown in hastily had knocked down several horses, along with two hapless men, one lying on the ground and groaning, the other limping and trying to escape. Surrounded by the two men, they did not surrender, but struggled with their swords to slash at the Perak soldiers, and were taught to stab the soldiers with spears. At this time, a group of soldiers rushed out of the city gate cave, and it was Tang Xiangwei who took the lead. It turned out that when Tang Xiangwei was about to go to the East City Gate with the soldiers of the new annex army of Toucheng, he saw that the cavalry of the Semu people was also rushing towards the East City Gate, so he chased after him with people. It's just that two legs can catch up with four legs.

As soon as the Semu cavalry fled, the defenders, who had no intention of fighting, surrendered one after another. These lustful people are really hateful, and they set a fire to the government before leaving. It was dry in winter, and the fire was on fire after a short time, and it was impossible to get close to it. Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, Ouyang Xuan had no choice but to organize people to demolish the houses and establish a separation zone. It took a busy day to stop the spread of the fire, but most of the houses in the city had been burned down, and the military supplies and the few grains stored in the government office had also been burned down.

When the houses and food were burned, all the people of the city wept aloud. Without housing and food, how can we survive the impending spring famine? At this moment, Ouyang Xuan's heart was also extremely entangled, although the population was the most important resource for the Thunderbolt Army, there was really no surplus food in the mountains. It is not difficult to solve the problem of the surrender of the 1,500 troops and the housing of the people, after all, there are large areas of forest in the mountains that can be cut down for housing, but with so many mouths to be fed, food is a headache.

Looking at Ouyang Xuan, who was frowning, Tang Xiangwei's heart moved, and he shouted loudly to the crowd: "Don't worry, fellow villagers, Lord Pan Luohuan, the nephew of Pan's command, has led a large army from Xinjin City, and will take over the affairs of the city in the near future, and the official family will not care about the life or death of everyone." His intention was to tell the people that the government would rebuild the city and not let the people starve to death. Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, the crowd became agitated. Hearing that the notorious Pan Luohuan was coming to take over Chongqing Mansion City, the soldiers and the people were excited, they had already had enough of this oppression.

I don't know who took the lead first, and the crowd rushed to Ouyang Xuan and knelt down, kowtowing constantly, asking the Thunderbolt Army to take him in. Looking at everyone's expectant eyes, Ouyang Xuan really couldn't afford to be hard-hearted and couldn't save him when he saw death, so he agreed with a long sigh. Since he had agreed, he immediately sent people back to the mountain to inform Yu Zhu, asked the villages to make preparations for containment, and ordered the soldiers to prepare to return to the mountain, and escort the people into the mountain after they had eaten enough tomorrow.

According to the policy of the Perak Army, the revivals were to be screened one by one, and the new soldiers who surrendered were to be sentenced to hard labor according to the crimes they had committed, but more than 100 soldiers who had defected to the uprising were exempted from treason. After screening and counting, there are more than 400 households and more than 900 people who are willing to enter the mountain, and only more than 40 households and more than 100 people are unwilling to enter the mountain. Most of those who chose to stay were wealthy and their houses had not been burned down, and most of them were die-hard fans of the government and the Pan family, while a few were ready to go to Chongqing and Jiading to seek refuge with relatives and friends. The Thunderbolts were not reluctant to make a choice for these people, and instead of taking their belongings, they gave them three days of food. These rich men offered to buy some grain with money, and Ouyang Xuan agreed, but asked for no iron money for the transaction—the Thunderbolt Army did not lack iron, let alone hand over children, but salt, silver, copper, or other materials. To say that these rich people have hidden a lot of the above-mentioned materials, and even a lot of miscanthus salt. Seeing that Ouyang Xuan's eyes lit up, he hurriedly asked where the miscanthus was produced, and someone replied that it was produced in Yixing Township, thirty miles northwest of Fucheng. As a chemical engineering major, he knew that this was a good thing, and that he could make many important chemical products.

After the fog cleared on the second day, the Thunderbolt army went to Hengyuan Village by land and water. In addition to transporting the few booty and baggage, the waterways also carried women, children, old and children. In this battle, Ouyang Xuan's most important thing was the shipbuilding workshop in the west of the city, but fortunately, the fire did not affect the west gate, and the craftsmen also chose to enter the mountain with the Thunderbolt army. Ouyang Xuan ordered all the tools of shipbuilding to be packed and transported to Wanjiaping. Huang Dagen and the teaching company did not go back together, but stayed behind to deal with the follow-up matters. Ouyang Xuan arranged three follow-up matters for them, one was to wait for the Xinjin City Navy to come to hand over, the second was to scrape off the nitrate on the wall skin in the city, and the third was to go to Yixing Township to find out the situation of manganese. According to the wealthy farmers who exchanged miscanthus for grain, the reserves of miscanthus in the area are quite abundant.

It took Huang Dagen a whole day to wipe out the houses in the city with his teachings. After scraping the nitrate, the Xinjin City Navy had not yet arrived, so he asked the two platoons of the teaching company to return to the mountains with the wall nitrate first, and he himself continued to wait with a platoon. The delay in the appearance of the Xinjin City Navy made Yu Laodig anxious, and he went to the wharf outside the West Gate from time to time to visit, but the result was disappointed.

After waiting for another two days, Xinjin's fleet arrived. When Pan Luohuan entered the city in front of his cronies, it was almost dusk. When he saw the dilapidated appearance of the fire in the city, he jumped like thunder and scolded on the spot, and angrily slapped Yu Lao next to him a few times. This guy did not scold the Mongols, but scolded the Thunderbolt army for being a waste and not protecting his government and belongings. He scolded Ouyang Xuan for having no official mansion, and took away the people in the city without waiting for him. Without these people, who is he oppressing? Enslaved whom? Tired of scolding, he remembered that the Yihong Courtyard in the city was also burned down, and after being heartbroken, he ordered his cronies to find the best house and beautiful woman in the city for him to sleep tonight. Not long after the order was given, weeping cries were heard all over the city. Pan Luohuan forcibly robbed houses and people's girls, and his minions naturally followed suit, and they also robbed houses and women for themselves. Those who did not rob the women and houses began to loot their property, and those who resisted were charged with the crime of being attached to the tartars.

Just when the city was full of chickens and dogs, several cronies sent by Pan Luohuan arrived at the camp of the Thunderbolt Army outside the city and asked Huang Dagen to meet Master Pan in a domineering manner. Before that, Yu Laodui had already sneaked back to the camp and informed Huang Dagen of the situation in the city. Huang Dagen understood that it was more auspicious to go to the city at this time, so where would he be willing to go. It's just that he also knows that he can't resist Pan Luohuan's hundreds of people by himself. The hero did not suffer the loss in front of him, so he accompanied the smiling face, sent a lot of property to these cronies, and asked them to bring two boxes of old-fashioned grenades back to pay the errand, and said that it was late today and he was unable to move, and he would meet Lord Pan tomorrow morning, and promised to send a few artillery, and it was not easy to send away these plague gods with a dry mouth. These cronies got Huang Dagen's personal promise, so they rushed back to hand over the business, but when they saw that the door of the house where Pan Luohuan was based was closed, and the laughter that came out from time to time, they dared to disturb his interest in fish and water, so they all roared to find their own fish and water joy.

After dark, the Perak camp began to get busy. Huang Dagen ordered his subordinates to pack up their things and go to Yixing Township early tomorrow morning, as for Pan Luohuan's Hongmen banquet, only fools will go! Artillery gifted? The Thunderbolt Army is regarded as a treasure, how can it be given to Pan Luohuan? Besides, Huang Dagen's teachings don't even have himself, what to give? As for the two boxes of old-fashioned grenades, they were given to the Xinjin City Navy at Ouyang Xuan's request, after all, the Thunderbolt Army was still nominally the Chongqing Mansion Army, and they couldn't give Pan control without any face.